No Perfect People Allowed, John Burke
No Perfect People Allowed, John Burke
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No Perfect People Allowed
Creating a Come-As-You-Are Culture in the Church

Author: John Burke

Narrator: Tom Casaletto

Unabridged: 12 hr 36 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Zondervan

Published: 07/01/2008


Synopsis

How do we live out the message of Jesus in today’s ever-changing culture?The church is facing its greatest challenge—and its greatest opportunity—in our postmodern, post-Christian world. God is drawing thousands of spiritually curious “imperfect people” to become his church—but how are we doing at welcoming them?No Perfect People Allowed shows you how to deconstruct the five main barriers standing between emerging generations and your church by creating the right culture. From inspiring stories of real people once far from God, to practical ideas that can be applied by any local church, this book offers a refreshing vision of the potential and power of the Body of Christ to transform lives today.

About John Burke

John Burke and his wife, Kathy, founded Gateway Church in Austin, Texas, in 1998. Since then, Gateway has grown to over 3,000 people, 70 percent of whom are in their twenties and thirties, and consists mostly of unchurched people who began actively following Christ at Gateway. Burke is also the author of No Perfect People Allowed: Creating a Come-as-You-Are Culture in the Church.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Phil on June 11, 2016

What kind of church is your church? Who is welcome at your church? I mean really welcome. Would the gay activist, the muslim, the local thief or drunk? What behaviours do they have to conform to before they’re welcome? John Burke sets out to help churches create genuinely welcoming church cultures th......more

Goodreads review by Josh on January 27, 2012

I absolutely LOVED this book. I read it at a time when I was really beginning to question my faith. I was not questioning it because of God himself, but because I saw the stale lifeless faith of most of the "Christians" around me. This book gave me a vision for what my faith and the Church should be......more

Goodreads review by Jacob on June 04, 2008

Honestly, I did a "quick read" of this book. We were reading it for a book club of sorts so I had to power through it. It was pretty good, and the guy had some interesting stories, but I feel like the book could have been half the length and still communicated exactly what the author set out to say.......more

Goodreads review by Brad on March 12, 2013

One of the cornerstone books that helped shape our church plant. If I am asked by church planters what is the one book that I would recommend that they read prior to planting a church, I recommend this one.......more